Glen Blood

This book is written after several years of teaching Java at the Coastal College of Georgia. This book is a rewrite of my first book, Structured Java, and adds in the object-oriented programming (OOP) aspects of Java. It is geared towards students starting in computer science. I stress the basics of software engineering and building good methods in the first half and expand that effort in OOP in the second half.The goal is to build a solid foundation in Software Engineering, OOP, and Java.

Java is an Object-Oriented Language. I believe that the Object-Oriented paradigm is extremely useful, but is very difficult to teach to beginning students. I also believe that there is a lot of benefit in understanding how to develop and debug good solid methods before we get into the additional complexities of the Object-Oriented paradigm. So there is a choice, we either teach our students multiple languages, or we find a way to teach them the basics of an object-oriented language, such as Java in a procedural fashion. A few things that I will stress in this book are: 1. Good Coding habits. Writing code so that others can read it. 2. Good Design habits. 3. Testing your code while building it. I call this Write a little, Test a little. 4. Project life cycle. I trust that this book will help in your understanding of Java and coding in general.